The file on MI5 surveillance

On Monday I attended a truly wonderful memorial tribute to my father, Jack Jones, organised by Unite the Union. The next day I read your report of the regurgitation of that hoary old story that he was a KGB agent, based on a book by Cambridge historian Christopher Andrew (MI5 put union leaders and protesters under surveillance during cold war, 6 October). Apparently, he claims that Labour party executive documents were provided in exchange for KGB money. Wow! That must have been fascinating reading. If my father had ever received KGB money, I can tell you it would have gone straight to the National Pensioners Convention. There definitely were no little pots of KGB gold left lying around his flat when he died. I can only assume from your front-page story (Stop treating us like traitors, pleads private schools chief, 6 October) that those products of the fee-paying school system who didn't become officers to lead the army all went into MI5. It sounds about right for their level of creative intelligence.

Jack Jones (jnr)

Plymouth

• Your report refers to MI5 opening a file on me during the 1980s. Neither I nor CND were legitimate targets of MI5. Our only purpose in meeting Russians was to convey our message that the nuclear arms race had to stop and that required action by them as well as the US. The real story was told by Cathy Massiter, the MI5 agent who broke the Official Secrets Act to tell how she had been required to do things she regarded as illegitimate. She testified that ministers required surveillance of me and CND because of the support we were gathering in opposition to Cruise missiles being sited in UK. This was a disgraceful misuse of power against an open, democratic, peaceful and non-violent campaign.